I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.